Originally Posted by
airtim6
At my current regional on 4th year pay, I'll break 60K at FO pay. If you can't even pick up OT trips, thats a decent pay cut on first year.
There is no getting around it, first year pay is despicable. (And as a side note so is second, third, fourth, and 20th/CA! But we'll fix it)
But here's the deal. You probably won't be on reserve very long if we are really hiring "20 - 24 / month indefinitely"
Once you can hold even an 'un-awarded relief line' then you can start padding up your credit time pretty much at will. I have a buddy, been here 1.5 yrs, and has credited over 100 hours most every bid after being here about 6 months. And even on RSV back in his time, he was getting VJA's to beef well beyond 75. That's probably not as easy to do now as we're staffed. However, once they run upgrade classes and the FO side gets a little thinner, summer T-stoms, etc. They'll be some VJA and JA calls for you money grubbers
to take advantage of.
I personally think my buddy is crazy, his brand-new $50K sports car is always sun-baking in the employee lot, but then again if we were all the same the world would be pretty boring - so to each his own.
